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>What people want is defined by society. Somehow some people want to be alone in a 2 tons EV, a 200 sqm mansion for a family of 4 and retire at 40. Others are t
by logicchains 3y ago
>What people want is defined by society. Somehow some people want to be alone in a 2 tons EV, a 200 sqm mansion for a family of 4 and retire at 40. Others are tremendously happy with a much, much less resources intensive lifestyles.
You just undermined your own assertion. If what people want was defined by society, then everybody would want the same things. But in fact as you stated they don't; some people want a lot, some people want little. There's no way you're going to stop people wanting nice things short of killing the 90% of the population that aren't ascetics, which you'll never be able to do (at least in the US) because that's also the part of the population that owns most of the guns.
- sgu999 3y agoWe don't have a fully globalised culture yet, what an average American wants isn't what an average Japanese wants. Of course even then, there are disparities and outliers, but we can't really overlook that if you "want" an SUV or an Apple Watch, that's quite likely going to be because the people around you find it valuable. I'd go even a bit further as to say that what is important is probably what people "need", not "want". Apparently we mostly "want" as much as we can have anyway, because that used to be helpful for not dying before being able to reproduce enough. > because that's also the part of the population that owns most of the guns That made me giggle
- logicchains 3y ago>I'd go even a bit further as to say that what is important is probably what people "need", not "want". Which makes you a self-righteous prick, thinking you have the right to determine what other people should and shouldn't have.
- sgu999 3y agoDid I prescribe anything in that regard? What does it make you, to think that you are entitled to anything you want regardless of resources limits and collective good?